On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Jeroen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> real nice command indeed, allso Richard Adams is right cause I can copy the
> data.
> The only strage thing I encountered is that I wasn't able to format the bad
> disks,
> I used fdformat -n  /dev/fd0 and fdformat -n /dev/fd0H1440 allso fdformat -n
> /dev/
> fd0 H1440 ; but the only answer I got was 'Could not determine current
> format type:
> No such device '. So I formatted them in wintendo (forgive me ;) )  Don't
> know
> what I did wrong here.

several people (including myself and someone else on this list a few weeks
ago) have had problems with fdformat . The suggested fix is trying
superformat instead. You should be able to find it on sunsite.
 
> 
> Nevertheless thanx for the answers.
> 
> Greetings
>         Jeroen
> 

Frank

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